Pay and cost of living in Clayton County, GA
Clayton County, GA is part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA labor market, and this page summarizes 78 occupations with published wages there. The median of their median salaries is $51,310 a year. The best-paid occupation listed is Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers at $618,090, and the lowest is Bartenders at $23,350.
A one-bedroom apartment in Clayton County, GA has a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,619 a month and a two-bedroom $1,762. Rent, food, home energy and gasoline for one adult add up to $26,437 a year. After federal, FICA and state income taxes, the average occupation here takes home $53,094 a year, and 70 of the 78 occupations listed here (90%) earn enough take-home pay to cover the four basics.
Each occupation links to a detailed page with gross pay, take-home pay, rent, food and energy costs, and the monthly budget margin. All pages share one method, which makes it easy to compare jobs inside Clayton County, GA or against other counties.
Housing, taxes and commute in Clayton County, GA
The figures below are exact U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates for Clayton County, GA, set beside the Georgia and national medians.
Median household income in Clayton County, GA is $59,806, 23% below the Georgia median of $77,353 and $80,734 nationally. A year of one-bedroom Fair Market Rent ($19,428) equals 32.5% of that income. The median of the occupation medians listed here, $51,310, is 14% below household income, which is expected because a household can hold more than one earner.
Homeowners in Clayton County, GA pay a median of $1,933 a year in real estate taxes, 17% below the Georgia median of $2,341. With a median home value of $222,300, 27% below the Georgia median of $303,300, the ratio of the two medians is 0.87% a year.
Renters in Clayton County, GA pay a median gross rent of $1,433 a month in the Census survey, 3% above the Georgia median of $1,393. HUD's one-bedroom Fair Market Rent used for the budgets on this site is $1,619; the Census figure covers rental units of every size.
Workers in Clayton County, GA who travel to a workplace spend an average of 31.6 minutes each way, 12% above the Georgia average of 28.3. 10.6% of workers work from home, compared with 15.1% nationally.